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  1. Gee on Hacker Modifies Facebook Home To Work On All Android Devices · · Score: 1

    This "hacker" wouldn't actually be named Mark Zuckerberg, would he?

  2. The best hangup on Lamenting the Demise of Hangups · · Score: 2

    The best hangup is when, mid-conversation, you whip your cell phone off a wall, smashing it into a million pieces. Didn't have those in the old hangup days, did you?

  3. Meh on Multimorphic Teases Open Source Multi-Game Pinball · · Score: 2

    The video screen is cool, but the actual pinball looks pretty boring. They probably should've less time on the video screen and more time on how to make a kickass pinball game.

  4. Simple Solution on Ask Slashdot: Software To Help Stay On Task? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Electrodes on the testicles. Worked for me!

  5. Atmospheric Smug Fire on Residents Report Bright Streak Over Bay Area Friday Evening · · Score: 1

    It's most likely that the high concentration of smug that has accumulated in the middle atmosphere above San Francisco was ignited by static electricity.

  6. Neither Super-Smart nor Super-Strong on Scientist Seeks 'Adventurous Human Woman' For Neanderthal Baby · · Score: 1

    They were probably neither super-smart nor super-strong, just super-horny. They screwed their way into oblivion...or was it immortality?

  7. Another Casuality of the Lala Acquisition: WOXY on How Apple Killed an iTunes Competitor · · Score: 3, Informative

    WOXY was the single best radio station I've ever come across to discover great up-and-coming new indie bands. It was a longtime terrestrial radio station that operated out of Cincinnati. When you watch dustin Hoffman annoying the shit of Tom Cruise by incessantly repeating "97X, BAM! the futurrrre of rock-n-roll", he's repeating WOXY's tagline. The station switched over to an internet-based ad-free model in the early 2000s and got into financial trouble. Lala became the station's patron savior, financially keeping the station alive, hoping to parlay its relationship with the station into indie credibility and an instant customer base. It worked too well. When Apple bought Lala there were many that hoped the company would continue to support the station, but alas, Woxy shut down almost immediately after the purchase and has been dead ever since. RIP WOXY.

  8. Re:Ummmmm... on First Photos and Video of Raspberry Pi Model A · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And why would anyone choose this model over B, with twice the ram, Ethernet, and a second USB port for a measly 10$ savings?

  9. Ummmmm... on First Photos and Video of Raspberry Pi Model A · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nobody wants this.

  10. Re:Make sure... on White House Must Answer Petition To 'Build Death Star' · · Score: 1

    The real question is whether it's AT-AT compliant.

  11. Whole Foods on Seafood Raised on Animal Feces Approved for Consumers · · Score: 1

    This makes me think $15/lb for local cod at Whole Foods isn't so unreasonable.

  12. The "pirates" win in the end on The Futility of the Ongoing Piracy War · · Score: 1

    Anything from which infinite copies can be made, instantly, and basically for free by anyone has no monetary value. The "pirates" realize this and are paying fair market value, which is zilch. The only way to convince them otherwise is with the threat of violence.

  13. Hear that? on Data-Mine Your Own Facebook Data With Wolfram Alpha · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the sound of thousands of Facebook users viewing the sum of their lives and realizing it's dull as shit.

  14. Easy on Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Childhood's End

  15. Re:Acronyms overloading. on Damn Small Linux Rises From the Dead With a 4.11 RC1 Release · · Score: 1, Funny

    "laser radiation beam" may sound cool, but it's also redundant.

  16. Face it on US Gov't Says They Can Still Freeze Megaupload Assets If the Case Is Dismissed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Face it. This is no longer a country of laws. The powers that be do what they want, how they want, whenever they want. Get used to it.

  17. Seriously? on Startup Turns Fixing Your Grandma's PC Into a Game · · Score: 1

    How stupid do you have to be to give these idiots money?

  18. New Discovery That May... on Human Stem Cell Transplants Successfully Reversed Diabetes In Mice · · Score: 0

    So sick of this headline science shit. "New Discovery That May Cure Cancer". "New Discovery That May Cure Parkinson's". "New Discovery That May Cure Alzheimers". Blah blah fucking blah. Come back when you actually do something.

  19. The sad truth on Banking On Your Personal Online Data · · Score: 1

    The saddest part about your personal information--your privacy--being bought and sold by third parties is that it is not, actually, worth very much. The way corporations like Google or Facebook make it worthwhile is they sell TENS OF MILLIONS of potential customers at a time. Even if one did take control of the market for their own personal info how much do you think you could make? A few cents a transaction maybe? A couple of bucks tops if you're in a really coveted demographic? The true amount is probably a fraction of a fraction of cent. Worth it?

  20. Too many X students; not enough X jobs on Too Many Biomedical Graduate Students, Not Enough Jobs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is true for most professions today in the U.S.. When the U.S. exported its manufacturing industry, vaporizing millions of well-paying blue collar jobs in the U.S., the middle class was told that these jobs would be replaced by even higher paying white collar or "creative" jobs for everyone--you just had to educate yourself. Well, people listened, and they educated themselves, and now they're finding out that they were sold a big fat bucket of bullshit. Just ask any recent law grad, or architecture grad, or marketing grad, or, yeah, bio-med grad. There just aren't enough of these professional jobs to replace the ones we've lost. There never was and there never will be.

  21. Let's Ban Thunder As Well on SpaceX Brownsville Space Port Opposed By Texas Environmentalists · · Score: 1

    Let's ban thunder and lightning as well, because this also scares the bejeezus out of animals. Hell, while we're at it, let's also ban predators, because NOTHING scares an animal more than being lunch. Fact is, most wild animals live in a perpetual state of horror. That's why they run away whenever you try to pet them.

  22. Am I living in the Twilight Zone? on Bill Banning Employer Facebook Snooping Introduced In Congress · · Score: 1

    Is this not the same Congress that just passed CISPA? Does anyone think this is some great victory?

  23. Re:Is it as effective as ozone? on Battery-Powered Plasma Flashlight Makes Short Work of Bacteria · · Score: 4, Informative

    MRSA is a direct product of our total war on all bacteria. Most people who become infected with MRSA were exposed to it in a hospital. Hospitals have basically become ultra-efficient incubators for MRSA.

  24. Re:Broken security on Queensland Police to Look For Unsecured WiFi Spots · · Score: 1

    And no matter what kind of lock you place on your house's door a sledgehammer will probably knock it down pretty easily. So what's your point exactly?

  25. Re:It's not just the textbooks on Math Textbooks a Textbook Example of Bad Textbooks · · Score: 1

    So now state-provided, state-mandated education is capitalism?